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Jan. 29th, 2008 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rae_faSeeing as how it's been a few months since i last posted, i figured it was time to post an update on life :o)
Every year i make the resolution to be more active in lj, and to make more of an effort to respond to my friend's list...and this year was no exception - and i was going to! Until my computer broke. Over Christmas we were planning on reformatting the hard-drives on my computer as it hasn't been working properly for a long time now, so there i was, backing up everything on the new external hard-drive that i'd brought, when one of my drives chooses that moment to fail. Luckily i'd backed up the majority of stuff, but it turns out the computer motherboard died...so no computer. My poor brother took my computer with him back to Aberystwyth when he went back to uni, so hopefully i'll get it back February half term...Easter at the latest. Of it would happen just as my new course begins, which co-incidently relies heavily on the use of a computer. Luckily i have a nice family who don't mind me hogging theirs for the time being!
In other news...Torchwood has eaten my brain again. Seriously...there's another 11 episodes to go. There is no physical way i can possibly maintain the level of excitement that i have for Torchwood for another 11 weeks...i may possibly explode. But....Jack/Ianto!! How do i love thee...i love that it's canon (for now...i keep waiting to be disappointed...and i really hope i won't be), i love that it's hot...and i love that the kiss in my icon will be on tv tomorrow night. *dies* I will seriously explode. What with Stargate Atlantis becoming the love story for John and Rodney, and Jack and Ianto living the love story (With aliens as a bonus on both shows) live couldn't get any better!
I'm back working with two new kids last week...and already watching them progress and recognise new words fills me with so much glee - i can't believe i was planning on giving up the voluntary stuff....it's soooo fulfilling! When they get words right that they previously didn't know...it's confidence building for both me and them. It's so much fun!
And i think Joan is beginning to warm up to me now. In the past she used to undermine me with the children at lunchtime, and make sarky comments but lately she's been much nicer and is actually talking to me, and she's started bringing me pudding from the kitchen after all the kids are gone. I hated school dinners when i was at that school, but i loved the pudding...and now i'm getting them again!
And today i received mail from the Open University announcing that i've won the 'Julian Hodge Award' , for getting a distinction in my T172 Technology course. I've been invited to an awards ceremony on my birthday, where i will get a certificate and a cheque for £225 and they want me to write a profile that they can send to the local newspapers and use in the OU magazines. Don't think i'll be doing that bit...i hate getting any sort of public attention, so i'm not sure whether to go the awards ceremony. But! That money covers half the cost for this new course i'm doing! Working hard literally pays!
Are you guys all okay? *Pokes friends list*
*Goes back to staring at The Icon Of Love*
Every year i make the resolution to be more active in lj, and to make more of an effort to respond to my friend's list...and this year was no exception - and i was going to! Until my computer broke. Over Christmas we were planning on reformatting the hard-drives on my computer as it hasn't been working properly for a long time now, so there i was, backing up everything on the new external hard-drive that i'd brought, when one of my drives chooses that moment to fail. Luckily i'd backed up the majority of stuff, but it turns out the computer motherboard died...so no computer. My poor brother took my computer with him back to Aberystwyth when he went back to uni, so hopefully i'll get it back February half term...Easter at the latest. Of it would happen just as my new course begins, which co-incidently relies heavily on the use of a computer. Luckily i have a nice family who don't mind me hogging theirs for the time being!
In other news...Torchwood has eaten my brain again. Seriously...there's another 11 episodes to go. There is no physical way i can possibly maintain the level of excitement that i have for Torchwood for another 11 weeks...i may possibly explode. But....Jack/Ianto!! How do i love thee...i love that it's canon (for now...i keep waiting to be disappointed...and i really hope i won't be), i love that it's hot...and i love that the kiss in my icon will be on tv tomorrow night. *dies* I will seriously explode. What with Stargate Atlantis becoming the love story for John and Rodney, and Jack and Ianto living the love story (With aliens as a bonus on both shows) live couldn't get any better!
I'm back working with two new kids last week...and already watching them progress and recognise new words fills me with so much glee - i can't believe i was planning on giving up the voluntary stuff....it's soooo fulfilling! When they get words right that they previously didn't know...it's confidence building for both me and them. It's so much fun!
And i think Joan is beginning to warm up to me now. In the past she used to undermine me with the children at lunchtime, and make sarky comments but lately she's been much nicer and is actually talking to me, and she's started bringing me pudding from the kitchen after all the kids are gone. I hated school dinners when i was at that school, but i loved the pudding...and now i'm getting them again!
And today i received mail from the Open University announcing that i've won the 'Julian Hodge Award' , for getting a distinction in my T172 Technology course. I've been invited to an awards ceremony on my birthday, where i will get a certificate and a cheque for £225 and they want me to write a profile that they can send to the local newspapers and use in the OU magazines. Don't think i'll be doing that bit...i hate getting any sort of public attention, so i'm not sure whether to go the awards ceremony. But! That money covers half the cost for this new course i'm doing! Working hard literally pays!
Are you guys all okay? *Pokes friends list*
*Goes back to staring at The Icon Of Love*
*Congratulations*
Date: 2008-01-29 02:25 pm (UTC)And you should defintiely write the profile - I command you! hehe Seriously, I think it would be good for you and raise your spirits even more.
I'm delighted school is going much better for you, it's always nice when a fellow co-worker changes their tune to pleasentness!
As for no computer ... *dies from horror* I wouldn't survive, though when I have a job I'm saving for a nice new, working computer. Hasten on half term I say - why is it that comps always break at the most inconveinet times?
Canon slash? *whimpers* I want canon slash in my shows! *cries* And what the heck is happening in SGA?
Re: *Congratulations*
Date: 2008-01-31 10:03 am (UTC)Thank you! The thing with profiles, is that you're meant to write them so that you sound really awesome, and how 'the OU changed my life for the better'...but remember how i was feeling really screwed over by the OU over my degree just before Christmas? I still haven't forgiven them (although the £225 goes a long way towards redeeming them :o) )
I really, really miss my computer, and all my links, and all my vids, and all my fics. I've got them backed up...but using someone elses computer to look at slash feels...wrong. How is the job hunting going by the way?
As for canon slash? That scene was incredibly awesome. Jack and Ianto were having this really meaningful conversation, and all i could think was 'The Kiss is coming! The Kiss is coming!' I've had to *ahem* re-watch the entire scene just to find out what they were saying...and to watch The Kiss again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and...
You get the idea. ;o) It's not up on YouTube yet (and i've checked), but someone has capped the scene with subtitles so you know what's being said, and a slow mo vid of the The Kiss [tm] over here (http://community.livejournal.com/jackxianto/505531.html#cutid1) and while i prefer The Kiss at the faster speed at which it aired...the slow mo version is pretty good for *ahem* studying. (It's longer than the one in my icon, and i'm in love) Just don't click while parents are around. ;o)
ETA: Ha! I lied! I found the scene on YouTube here! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKEjLCMc4vQ) *Settles back to watch again and again and.....*